Microservices Job Trends

Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 83 51
Rank change year-on-year -37 -32 -8
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,163 1,821 2,923
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.91% 3.42% 4.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.76% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 786 1,012 2,315
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £45,500
25th Percentile £61,250 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -10.42%
75th Percentile £96,250 £91,991 £87,500
90th Percentile £125,000 £112,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 49,245 48,425 53,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 80.71% 90.86% 89.54%
Number of salaries quoted 28,981 23,503 40,689
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £42,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +3.45% -7.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 18 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -25 1,069 £77,500 +6.90% 1,215
London +6 602 £85,000 -1.73% 224
Work from Home -28 500 £75,000 +7.14% 531
UK excluding London -87 483 £70,000 +3.70% 1,141
North of England -33 213 £70,000 +3.70% 234
North West -19 114 £65,000 -7.14% 103
South East -99 87 £75,000 +11.11% 344
Yorkshire -28 81 £75,000 +11.11% 97
Midlands -17 62 £73,750 +11.32% 145
South West -57 57 £66,250 +1.92% 154
West Midlands +4 36 £72,500 +3.57% 43
East of England 0 32 £77,500 +34.78% 163
Scotland -68 27 £60,000 -14.29% 44
East Midlands -39 24 £76,000 +16.92% 99
North East -10 18 £70,000 +33.33% 34
Northern Ireland -15 5 £62,500 +11.11% 24
Wales -7 4 £55,916 +26.09% 66
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
1 28 (2.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 25 (2.15%) Apache
3 23 (1.98%) Apache Spark
3 23 (1.98%) Confluence
4 13 (1.12%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.03%) JBoss
6 10 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 8 (0.69%) CMS
8 7 (0.60%) Appian
9 5 (0.43%) Apache Pulsar
9 5 (0.43%) IIS
9 5 (0.43%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) Liferay
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.086%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.086%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.086%) NServiceBus
11 1 (0.086%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.086%) Tomcat
Applications
1 21 (1.81%) Maya
2 15 (1.29%) MS Visio
3 12 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.34%) PlantUML
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 17 (1.46%) Oracle ERP
2 9 (0.77%) Endur
2 9 (0.77%) SAP FS
3 8 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.26%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.086%) Actimize
7 1 (0.086%) Bloomberg AIM
7 1 (0.086%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.086%) Fidessa
7 1 (0.086%) Quorum
7 1 (0.086%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.086%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 624 (53.65%) AWS
2 553 (47.55%) Azure
3 211 (18.14%) Serverless
4 198 (17.02%) GCP
5 159 (13.67%) SaaS
6 122 (10.49%) GitHub
7 111 (9.54%) Azure DevOps
8 84 (7.22%) Amazon S3
8 84 (7.22%) AWS Lambda
9 83 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
10 65 (5.59%) Amazon ECS
11 60 (5.16%) Amazon SQS
12 57 (4.90%) PaaS
13 55 (4.73%) AWS CloudFormation
14 51 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
15 40 (3.44%) Amazon EC2
16 38 (3.27%) IaaS
17 36 (3.10%) Power Platform
18 35 (3.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 33 (2.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.03%) HTTP
2 10 (0.86%) AMQP
3 6 (0.52%) Internet
4 3 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 3 (0.26%) Multicast
4 3 (0.26%) SNMP
4 3 (0.26%) WAN
5 2 (0.17%) Broadband
5 2 (0.17%) SSL
6 1 (0.086%) Hyperconnected
6 1 (0.086%) LTE
6 1 (0.086%) MQTT
6 1 (0.086%) Network Security
6 1 (0.086%) TCAP
6 1 (0.086%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 169 (14.53%) NoSQL
2 154 (13.24%) PostgreSQL
3 142 (12.21%) MongoDB
4 126 (10.83%) SQL Server
5 62 (5.33%) DynamoDB
6 57 (4.90%) Relational Database
7 48 (4.13%) MySQL
8 44 (3.78%) Elasticsearch
9 42 (3.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 31 (2.67%) Redis
11 25 (2.15%) Big Data
12 23 (1.98%) Power BI
13 20 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
14 19 (1.63%) Data Warehouse
14 19 (1.63%) RDBMS
15 18 (1.55%) BigQuery
16 17 (1.46%) Tableau
17 14 (1.20%) DB2
18 12 (1.03%) Pinecone
19 9 (0.77%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 157 (13.50%) Git
2 116 (9.97%) Jenkins
3 54 (4.64%) JIRA
4 50 (4.30%) GitLab
5 43 (3.70%) JUnit
6 39 (3.35%) Selenium
7 34 (2.92%) Cucumber
8 30 (2.58%) TeamCity
9 27 (2.32%) Mockito
10 25 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 25 (2.15%) JMeter
11 22 (1.89%) Bitbucket
12 17 (1.46%) Maven
12 17 (1.46%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.29%) CircleCI
14 13 (1.12%) Postman
15 9 (0.77%) LoadRunner
15 9 (0.77%) REST Assured
15 9 (0.77%) Visual Studio
15 9 (0.77%) Vite
General
1 357 (30.70%) Social Skills
2 343 (29.49%) Finance
3 120 (10.32%) Banking
4 108 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 105 (9.03%) Law
6 71 (6.10%) Public Sector
7 50 (4.30%) Retail
8 47 (4.04%) Games
9 44 (3.78%) Financial Institution
10 38 (3.27%) Telecoms
11 31 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 30 (2.58%) French Language
13 29 (2.49%) Dutch Language
14 26 (2.24%) Back Office
15 23 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
15 23 (1.98%) Legal
16 22 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
17 21 (1.81%) Billing
18 15 (1.29%) Advertising
18 15 (1.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 398 (34.22%) Developer
2 287 (24.68%) Senior
3 233 (20.03%) Architect
4 211 (18.14%) Software Engineer
5 166 (14.27%) Lead
6 112 (9.63%) Solutions Architect
7 103 (8.86%) Java Developer
8 101 (8.68%) Senior Developer
9 97 (8.34%) Full-Stack Developer
10 93 (8.00%) .NET Developer
11 74 (6.36%) Senior Software Engineer
12 59 (5.07%) Java Engineer
13 50 (4.30%) Lead Developer
14 44 (3.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 43 (3.70%) Software Developer
16 42 (3.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 41 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
18 36 (3.10%) Lead Architect
19 34 (2.92%) Principal Engineer
20 33 (2.84%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 303 (26.05%) .NET
2 295 (25.37%) React
3 244 (20.98%) RESTful
4 211 (18.14%) Spring
5 201 (17.28%) REST
6 185 (15.91%) Spring Boot
7 178 (15.31%) Kafka
8 162 (13.93%) Node.js
9 136 (11.69%) AngularJS
10 115 (9.89%) .NET Core
11 87 (7.48%) HTML
12 73 (6.28%) .NET Framework
13 65 (5.59%) ASP.NET
14 61 (5.25%) CSS
14 61 (5.25%) RabbitMQ
15 60 (5.16%) Middleware
16 59 (5.07%) ASP.NET Web API
17 52 (4.47%) Hibernate
18 49 (4.21%) Django
18 49 (4.21%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 308 (26.48%) Cloud Native
2 175 (15.05%) Distributed Systems
3 132 (11.35%) Enterprise Software
4 96 (8.25%) Product Ownership
5 47 (4.04%) Greenfield Project
5 47 (4.04%) Legacy Systems
6 36 (3.10%) Data Structures
7 34 (2.92%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.67%) Algorithms
9 30 (2.58%) Virtual Team
10 27 (2.32%) Blockchain
10 27 (2.32%) Distributed Architecture
11 24 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 18 (1.55%) Onboarding
13 17 (1.46%) Management Information System
14 15 (1.29%) IoT
14 15 (1.29%) Low-Code
14 15 (1.29%) Mobile App
14 15 (1.29%) Public Cloud
15 12 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 50 (4.30%) Linux
2 20 (1.72%) Android
2 20 (1.72%) Windows
3 11 (0.95%) Apple iOS
4 5 (0.43%) CentOS
4 5 (0.43%) Debian
4 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.17%) VMS
6 1 (0.086%) Fedora
6 1 (0.086%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (49.27%) Agile
2 548 (47.12%) CI/CD
3 485 (41.70%) DevOps
4 386 (33.19%) Software Engineering
5 293 (25.19%) Containerisation
6 283 (24.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 250 (21.50%) Mentoring
8 245 (21.07%) AI
8 245 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
9 220 (18.92%) Event-Driven
10 206 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 190 (16.34%) Computer Science
12 171 (14.70%) Test Automation
13 156 (13.41%) TDD
14 155 (13.33%) Scrum
15 145 (12.47%) Technical Leadership
16 144 (12.38%) Roadmaps
17 132 (11.35%) SDLC
18 131 (11.26%) Architectural Patterns
19 129 (11.09%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 407 (35.00%) Java
2 285 (24.51%) C#
3 273 (23.47%) SQL
4 271 (23.30%) Python
5 257 (22.10%) JavaScript
6 214 (18.40%) TypeScript
7 62 (5.33%) Go
8 33 (2.84%) Shell Script
9 30 (2.58%) PL/SQL
10 24 (2.06%) C++
11 23 (1.98%) C
12 22 (1.89%) PHP
13 21 (1.81%) Bash
14 19 (1.63%) Ruby
15 15 (1.29%) Kotlin
16 12 (1.03%) Rust
17 11 (0.95%) PowerShell
18 9 (0.77%) Bicep
19 7 (0.60%) Scala
20 6 (0.52%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 210 (18.06%) Degree
2 136 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (8.51%) Security Cleared
4 69 (5.93%) SC Cleared
5 65 (5.59%) AWS Certification
6 55 (4.73%) Master's Degree
7 49 (4.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 47 (4.04%) Azure Certification
9 36 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 34 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.29%) AWS Certified Developer
12 14 (1.20%) DV Cleared
13 9 (0.77%) PMI Certification
13 9 (0.77%) PMP
14 8 (0.69%) CISM
14 8 (0.69%) CISSP
15 7 (0.60%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 6 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
17 4 (0.34%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (6.88%) QA
2 25 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.63%) GDPR
4 16 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.95%) IFRS
5 11 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (0.95%) SLA
6 9 (0.77%) IFRS 17
6 9 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 8 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 8 (0.69%) EMIR
7 8 (0.69%) NCSC
7 8 (0.69%) NIST
8 5 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.43%) WCAG
9 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.26%) SEPA
10 2 (0.17%) PSD2
10 2 (0.17%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.086%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 355 (30.52%) Docker
2 15 (1.29%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.17%) Firmware
4 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.17%) vSphere
5 1 (0.086%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 347 (29.84%) Kubernetes
2 188 (16.17%) Terraform
3 47 (4.04%) Grafana
4 42 (3.61%) Ansible
5 29 (2.49%) Kibana
6 18 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
7 15 (1.29%) Argo
8 14 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 7 (0.60%) Puppet
10 4 (0.34%) HP Fortify
10 4 (0.34%) Istio
10 4 (0.34%) Kubeflow
10 4 (0.34%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.26%) Rancher
12 1 (0.086%) Nagios
Vendors
1 172 (14.79%) Microsoft
2 63 (5.42%) Oracle
3 33 (2.84%) Google
4 24 (2.06%) Guidewire
5 20 (1.72%) Dynatrace
5 20 (1.72%) Splunk
6 19 (1.63%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.63%) SAP
7 17 (1.46%) OpenAI
8 15 (1.29%) BiZZdesign
9 14 (1.20%) CrowdStrike
10 13 (1.12%) MuleSoft
10 13 (1.12%) Software AG
11 12 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 12 (1.03%) Duck Creek
12 11 (0.95%) IBM
13 10 (0.86%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.86%) Palo Alto
13 10 (0.86%) Red Hat
14 8 (0.69%) OpenLink